Call for regional approach to defeat terrorists: Qureshi stresses battle for hearts and minds
MUNICH, Feb 8: The international community needs to adopt a comprehensive regional approach focussing on “a generous focus on reconstruction, development and social welfare with participation of all stakeholders” for eradicating terrorism and extremism, says Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi....
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Govt may file appeal against Dr Khan’s release
ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: The government is considering filing an appeal against Islamabad High Court’s verdict declaring nuclear scientist Dr A. Q. Khan a ‘free citizen’....
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Militants release videotape of engineer’s beheading
TANK/KOHAT, Feb 8: Taliban militants on Sunday released a videotape showing the beheading of Polish geologist Poitr Stancza and warned other kidnapped foreigners would meet the same fate if their demands were not met....
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Drone strikes killed high-value targets, US tells Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Feb 8: The United States wants to continue drone strikes inside Pakistan’s tribal areas because US military experts believe the strikes have killed a large number of Al Qaeda leaders and local militants and have destroyed their hideouts....
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Defence committee to get Mumbai report today
MULTAN, Feb 8: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the report of investigation into the Mumbai terror attacks will be presented to the cabinet’s Defence Coordination Committee at a meeting on Monday....
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Mumbai attackers got internal help: Modi
NEW DELHI, Feb 8: Indian politics was stranded between a hawk and a turncoat on Sunday, when its chief ideologue for military solutions against terrorism, which mostly also includes Islamabad, suddenly blamed “internal help” for Mumbai’s November nightmare....
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Bush fires wipe out towns, kill over 100
KINGLAKE (Australia), Feb 8: At least 108 people were killed and entire towns razed in the worst wildfire disaster in Australian history, described by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday as “hell in all its fury”....
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Khatami to run for presidency
TEHRAN, Feb 8: Iran’s reformist ex-president Mohammad Khatami on Sunday announced he would stand in June presidential elections in a challenge that could see the ouster of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government....
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Afghanistan tougher than Iraq: Holbrooke: Pakistan needs aid, sympathy
MUNICH: The United States warned its allies on Sunday that fighting the insurgency in Afghanistan could prove tougher than in Iraq and appealed, along with Britain, for more troops and equipment....
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Gilani asks US to strengthen capacity of Pakistan forces
NEW YORK, Feb 8: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called upon the United States to develop a new strategy wherein there is “more intelligence sharing between the two countries”....
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UK-based terrorists biggest threat to US: CIA
LONDON, Feb 8: The CIA has recruited record numbers of informants in the Pakistani community in the UK to monitor “the 2,000 terrorist suspects” identified by MI5....
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Pakistan seen most urgent challenge to US
WASHINGTON, Feb 8: The US Central Command has concluded a study which claims that the most urgent foreign policy challenge facing the Obama administration is Pakistan....
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KSE may put off accounting standard for a year
KARACHI, Feb 8: The stakeholders in the stock market who attended a meeting on Saturday to deliberate on the accounting treatment of decline in fair value of “available for sale investments”...
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Shujaat to run for Senate
ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: Pakistan Muslim League-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain will contest for a Senate seat from Punjab. This was decided at a meeting of senior leaders of the party held at Chaudhry Shujaat’s Lahore residence on Saturday....
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Two US soldiers killed
KABUL, Feb 8: Two American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Sunday when a roadside bomb they were trying to defuse exploded, a US spokeswoman said....
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Nato seeks Russian help to keep Kyrgyz base
MOSCOW, Feb 8: Nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Sunday urged Russia to use its influence to keep open an airbase in Kyrgyzstan used by western forces as a link to Afghanistan, says a report....
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24 killed as Brazilian plane crashes into river
BRASILIA, Feb 8: Rescue workers recovered 24 bodies on Sunday from the bottom of a river in the Amazon jungle after a plane crashed in bad weather, airline officials and rescue workers said....
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Khawaja Hoti to visit Swat for peace talks
ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: Awami National Party’s estranged leader Khawaja Mohammad Khan Hoti said here on Sunday he would go to Swat in a few days to hold talks with Taliban for peace in the region....
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